I help enterprises run APIs and AI agents in production.

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About me

I’m a Senior Staff Field Engineer in Kong’s Professional Services team, based in the Netherlands. I work with the teams that run API platforms inside large companies: banks, insurers, retailers, pharma. Some are putting Kong into production for the first time, some are moving from a self-managed setup to Konnect, and more and more of them want to know how to let AI agents use their APIs safely.

I started on API platforms in 2014 with Apigee at Zensar. After that I spent six years at Devoteam as an API management architect, helping energy companies, LeasePlan and IKEA choose and run platforms on Apigee, 3scale, Mashery and MuleSoft. I joined Kong in 2023. The products changed; the problems mostly didn’t.

Whatever the project, the goal is the same: get the customer live, help them see real value from the platform and scale it, and most of all leave them able to run it themselves.

How I work

I like to be hands-on. A typical engagement is a few weeks with a platform team: design sessions, building the first pipeline together, a production readiness review before go-live. When the same problem shows up on two projects, I try to turn the fix into a tool, a checklist or a write-up. Some of those tools are now used by other engineers at Kong, which is the part I’m proudest of.

When something is broken in the product, I’d rather fix it upstream than work around it.